Monchy-le-Preux
Pas-de-Calais, France
Mentioned: 1917
Vimy / Artois Sector A village on a hill 9km east of Arras, above the main Arras-Cambrai road. Named (as "Monch-le-Preux") in a G.H.Q. situation report Robertson copies into his diary on April 10, 1917, marking the line along the Scarpe south of Arras.
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1917
- 10 April 1917… ine on southern front – CROISILLES – T50 – N34 cent. – COJEUL RIV. In N336 – N27 cen. N22a – N16 cent. – N12 cent. – MONCH-LE-PREUX to Riv. SCARPE about I25 cent. North of riv. line continues N18 cent. – H12a H3C – FARBUS …
1918
- 23 March 1918… st, it doesn’t seem as tho’ the Boche had got in more than 6,000 yds. at any point. – It is said that he has retaken Monchy-le-Preux – Arras rail-head is closed & quite a bunch of civvies have cleared out. Leave is stopped …